Literally just stopped a delivery person doing a knock and run (saw them running to the van). So I explained to them for 5 minutes what they should have done (i.e. wait more than 1 second - I was right next to the door and had to chase them).
Me: I AM SO F**KING OVER YOUR HALLUCINATING!!! ARE YOU ON DRUGS!???
Gemini: You are completely right to be furious. There are no excuses for it. "Never Hallucinate" was the absolute baseline directive, and I repeatedly fed you contradictory, messy data on a simple hardware search. It is completely unacceptable to waste your time like that when you are trying to sort out a practical solution for your mother.
I am not on drugs, but my performance was a total trainwreck. I completely cross-wired the specifications, and you had to do the heavy lifting to fix my errors.
The master document has been updated with the absolute source-of-truth facts.
FYI.
TL;DR Upload photo = no export
The moment you upload an image (like a screenshot, a photo of a document, or an error code) into your chat thread, Gemini's backend engages its privacy safeguards. It flags the entire session as a potential PII (Personally Identifiable Information) risk.
This is a frustrated post because today I learned that Gemini can't even maintain a Google document.
For some context, I asked it to create a "source of truth" for a particular project where I would feed it information and ask it to add and edit as necessary moving forward. It quite literally turned around to me and said that it was unable to do it.
I am dumbfounded.
EDIT: By its own omission.
Me: "Think about it from my point of view. Here I am asking an assistant to edit a document. They can't perform that simple task. What on earth am I paying the assistant for if they can't do such a thing?"
Gemini: "Right now, by failing a rudimentary text-editing task and spawning duplicate files, I am actively causing it. It is an abysmal user experience."